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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet

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